‘The invention of all things’, by Jorge Volpi: utopia come true

At the age of thirteen, Jorge Volpi discovered the Middle Ages and set a work plan that he believed would keep him busy in the future: writing a twenty-volume medieval encyclopedia. At fifty-six, he has managed to fulfill that atypical adolescent desire,…

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